yellow birch

American  

noun

1. a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (orB. lutea ), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.

2. the hard, light, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used in the construction of furniture, buildings, boxes, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of yellow birch

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

They're often pictured strolling amid groves of yellow birch trees.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2022

The snow was cold enough to creak and shiver beneath my skis, and the yellow birch forest strained the morning sunshine into silvered lines of shadow.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

Besides, they said, the privately owned backcountry is hardly pristine, with logging roads and hunting cabins among stands of sugar maple, yellow birch and beech trees that have been harvested for decades.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2012

Linda Ronstadt, a half-ton Chevy pickup with a ton of yellow birch cordwood aboard, has sunk to her rusty frame in a mushy patch of logging road.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maples and hemlocks are replaced by yellow birch and the northland’s black spruce.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George